"I wanted to come back in for the third," he said. "It took a while to get stitched up, I was back there for a while, but all the doctors came to the conclusion -- and my wife -- that I probably shouldn't go back out, just for the sake of not ripping the stitches. It was pretty deep, too, in the cheek area, so just let my body rest and not go back out there with whatever emotional drain I had from it.

"I would like to play tomorrow. We have to talk to some more doctors and see how my face reacts in the next 24 hours, see if the swelling gets worse."